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RFT Spring Arts Guide 2013: Music

In St. Louis Music, Life Is a Never-Ending Conflict of Interests

Art and life cohabitate, informing, imitating and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. Two months ago, my wife and I began renting a building in Edwardsville, Illinois, and moved our home studio ... More >>

Meshuggah's Mårten Hagström on Performing Sans Vocalist, and Being "Harm-Friendly" Psychedelic

By Linda Leseman This week, Swedish progressive metal band Meshuggah have been performing alongside a cardboard cutout of their singer, Jens Kidman, whose fearsome voice was completely annihilated by the flu. (Don't worry, he's recovering.) Whether he'll join his bandmates onstage this Saturday at ... More >>

The Six Best Songs That Are At Least 50% Guitar Solo

Most rock songs use guitar solos as icing. In some rare cases, the solo is an essential element incorporated into the batter of the proverbial song-cake. Here are the six best songs that are at least 50 percent guitar solo. Let us know your favorites in the comments below. See also: -The many moods ... More >>

The Six Best Greatest Hits Albums

This week, RFT announces the winners of this year's Best Of St. Louis issue. To celebrate - and give a break from the local overload to ensue - here are the six best "Best Of" albums, plus a few bonus picks at the end. Let us know your favorites in the comments, and we'll put the comment in our vaul ... More >>

Between the Rock of Snark and the Hard Place of Crap: Two Meditations On Negativity In Music

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. 1. I saw The Wall this weekend for the first time, at the Wildey Theater in Edwardsville. I've always bee ... More >>

The Six Best Songs About Olympic Events

Hey, Earth. Not sure if you heard, but the 2012 Olympics are happening right now in London. Music is an important part of the overall festivities, although most selections heard during the ceremonies and coverage are catchall motivational songs or hype-up tracks. Okay, a few national anthems too. We ... More >>

The Six Best Bass Lines Of All Time

Bass has many forms -- electric, upright, synthesized. Whatever its shape, it is a crucial element to popular music. Most songs don't need good bass lines, but the ones that have them are propelled into greatness. Here are the six best bass lines. Please note that bass parts that parrot guitar par ... More >>

Win El Monstero Tickets

​The holiday we've been waiting for since the summer is nearly upon us! We are, obviously, referring to El Monstero, the Pink Floyd tribute show that takes over the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard, 314-726-6161) once a year for, in this case, six shows. The first of those shows is this weekend ... More >>

El Monstero's Biggest Stage Show Ever Is Saturday

Paul Addotta​It's T-minus one day until El Monstero's first-ever summer show, and bassist Kevin Gagnepain is still receiving progress reports on what will be the band's biggest ever stage performance on Saturday at Jefferson Barracks Park. It takes about three hours to get him on the phone, an ... More >>

El Monstero Ticket Giveaway

Obviously you want to go to this. Photo by Paul Addotta.​El Monstero, the Pink Floyd tribute that makes all other tributes look more like sheepish compliments, is back for its first ever summer installment. This Saturday, July 9th, the Monster hits the Veteran's Memorial Amphitheater in Jeffe ... More >>

Contest! Win a Hardee's Official Opening Day Party Zone Shirt and a Pair of RFT Sunglasses! [Updated With Winners!]

Chrissy WilmesSpecial thanks to our model, Calendar Editor Paul​In case you didn't know, the Cardinals' opening day is sort of a big deal. Folks skip work, camp out for tickets and tailgate a whole lot harder than usual. This year, aside from the smaller celebrations taking place all over St ... More >>

The El Monstero juggernaut continues to shine on in 2010

El Monstero Discusses...Sammy Hagar?

Jon GitchoffEl Monstero at the Pageant, December 17, 2010​In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer tagged along to El Monstero practice and got details about this year's model of the Pink Floyd tribute extravaganza. Tickets are still available for the band's Christmas night show, although Dec ... More >>

Review: El Monstero at the Pageant, Friday, December 17

Jon Gitchoff​It takes cojones to play a set that, save for one song, draws entirely from Pink Floyd's The Wall -- when Roger Waters himself played the entire album in your town less than two months ago. But the masterminds behind El Monstero, St. Louis' annual December Pink Floyd tribute supe ... More >>

The Worst Cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb." Ever. [Video]

Hey, you: Perhaps you missed Roger Waters' recent restaging of The Wall, but need tiding over before El Monstero's multi-night stand at the Pageant. Or perhaps you hate Pink Floyd and would like to see them banished from collective memory. Either way, have we got the clip for you. Behold this exqu ... More >>

Review Photos: Roger Waters' The Wall Live Tour at the Scottrade Center, Friday, October 29

Todd OwyoungRoger Waters' The Wall Live Tour at the Scottrade Center​If you're a Pink Floyd fan, Roger Waters' The Wall Live tour is a big deal: It's the first time in twenty years that the entire iconic album has been played live by someone associated with the band. Even if you're not a Pink ... More >>

Roger Waters' musical help on The Wall has ties to St. Louis

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Roger Waters' The Wall Tour Coming to St. Louis

According to Billboard, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is performing the band's legendary album The Wall in full this fall -- and the tour is coming to St. Louis. The date is October 29 at Scottrade Center; info should be up on his official website in a few hours. The Billboard article says: Prior to th ... More >>

Over the Weekend: El Monstero at the Pageant, Pitbull at Home Nightclub and "Sexy Santas" at Sol Lounge

It's going to be difficult to get any real work done during this short holiday week, so why even try? What you need to do is spend the next couple days sitting at your computer pretending to do work. (You know, like what you do the other 51 weeks of the year only this time with more gusto!) Here to ... More >>

Show Review Photos: El Monstero at the Pageant, Night One, Friday, December 18

Each year in St. Louis, the official kick-off to the holidays becomes more and more synonymous with the series of shows performed by the local Pink Floyd tribute act El Monstero y Los Masked Avengers. It's a seasonal reunion of sorts for the aging KSHE crowd who grew up with Floyd's haunting psyched ... More >>

El Monstero y los Masked Avengers

8 p.m. Friday, December 18, Saturday, December 19 and Wednesday, December 23. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

A Monstrous Anniversary: After a decade together, the Lou's premier Pink Floyd tribute act, El Monstero, gets its prog on for six nights

Review Photos Setlist: Smashing Pumpkins at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, Wednesday, November 26

Setlist and words from Shae Moseley. Can anyone help with the question marks? Photos by Todd Owyoung.Slide ShowPink Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" has been a setlist staple on this fall's Smashing Pumpkins 20th Anniversary Tour. But Floyd's influence was actually quite easy to s ... More >>

Interview: Australian Pink Floyd keyboardist Jason Sawford

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: November 7-9

Logos

Beautiful Disguise EP
(self-released)

The Weekend That Was in St. Louis: What Else Happened?

The Haunted

6 p.m. Tuesday, April 3. Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois).

Wish You Were Here

B-Sides gets the skinny on El Monstero's Pink Floyd homage and gives our annual list of songs to make those pesky party hangers-on vamoose.

Moneen

7 p.m. Thursday, November 2. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Between the Buried and Me

The Anatomy Of (Victory)

The Church

Uninvited, Like the Clouds (Cooking Vinyl)

Secret Machines

Ten Silver Drops (Reprise)

Ambulance LTD

New English EP (TVT)

We Aren't the World

A critical fatwa of Live 8

The Fucking Champs with Zombi

Monday, May 30; Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)

The Scissor Sisters

The Scissor Sisters (Universal)

Music for Bookstores

Brian Eno's got nothing

St. Louis Blues

Radar Station mourns the chill of winter lineups

Appleseed Cast

Two Conversations (Tiger Style)

Cave-In

Sunday, September 21; Mississippi Nights

9/11 Memorial in a Pub

Barfly does The Guys

King of Rock

Rhymer Common breaks new ground on his adventurous, rock-infused new disc

Yonder Mountain String Band with Larry Keel

Friday, January 31; Pageant

Best Place to Shop for a Wedding Dress

Tower Grove Park

Film Openings

Week of July 24, 2002

Sound in Motion

Former (and future?) Fugee Wyclef Jean arrives in St. Louis to present The Ecleftic